Ideology may not be the primary problem. The deeper question is what kind of world produces the need for the identities that ideology can stabilise.
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why destructive identities take hold
The self depends on a membrane of belief separating “me” from the world, though almost everything constructing that “me” comes from elsewhere.
Exploring how relation and difference generate the structures we experience as reality.
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unbalanced: political recursion
Politics is an abstraction that leverages human beings as an extraordinarily effective method of self-propagation.
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outer limits: impredicativity
Every explanation of reality becomes another part of the reality left to explain:
E(R) ∈ R → E(R) ≠ R.
Communication converges locally while preserving uncertainty globally. Temporary centres stabilise meaning, a wider field remains generative rather than resolved.
Psychological maturity does not replace immaturity. It incorporates it, organises it, and learns how to live through it.
The ugly implication is that communicative success bears no necessary relationship to truth, intelligence, morality or long-term viability.
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australian universities are broken
The institutions tasked with examining society have become incapable of examining themselves.
The world is not merely broken. Too many people are paid to keep it that way.
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consciousness and the human world
Symbolic systems presuppose an experiencing subject, yet no symbolic system fully accounts for the existence of experience itself.
Political science inherits the person from philosophy without explaining it.
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